Photography - Image Processing - Virtual Painter

Easily become an artist with Virtual Painter 4 - You can change your favorite digital pictures into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, pencils, etc. with a few simple mouse clicks. No difficult setup is required. Your photos are changed into paintings in front of your eyes in a few seconds.

Virtual Painter 4 consists of sixteen virtual painters (filters) and is available as an Adobe compatible plugin for most photo editing programs that run on Windows systems. The downloadable version 4 is available from VPaint for $59.00. A free trial download is available. For details see the VPaint web site.

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Original

Collage

Gouache

Watercolor

Photos and Artwork by Peter Schulz

Tip 1 - Use low value settings. The Virtual Painter settings used in the above samples were generally set to their lowest value with the exception of focus which was set between medium and high.

Tip 2 - Use large images. The above images were 1024 x 768 pixels when I did them. And I would not hesitate to double this size if I wanted to make pictures suitable for 20" x 30" prints.